# Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform

**Company**: Tide
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

Join Tide as a Staff Software Engineer on the Agentic Platform team. You'll work on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of financial services, focusing on building high-quality, scalable products with real-world impact.

## Responsibilities

As a Staff-level Backend Engineer (AI), you will:

- Design frameworks, standards, and platforms for scaling AI capabilities securely and efficiently across the enterprise.

- Build core services for Tide's agentic platform, including APIs, workflow orchestration, and tool integration.

- Integrate bought components where they accelerate delivery, and build where control, trust, and reuse matter most.

- Collaborate with product, data, platform, and security teams to productionize shared AI capabilities.

- Design services that are reliable, secure, observable, and easy for other teams to adopt.

- Help shape reusable engineering patterns for AI-enabled workflows.

## Requirements

- Strong backend or platform engineering experience in production environments.

- Good judgment across APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and service design.

- Experience integrating internal and third-party platforms.

- Comfort working in ambiguity and turning emerging needs into robust platform components.

- Strong focus on quality, reliability, and developer usability.

- Experience with AI infrastructure or orchestration is helpful but not essential.

- Experience in highly regulated industries (Fintech, Healthtech, etc.) where safety and compliance are core to the product is valuable but not essential.

## Tech Stack

- Java, Spring Boot, and JOOQ for building RESTful APIs of microservices.

- Event-driven architecture with messages over SNS+SQS and Kafka.

- Primary datastores are MySQL and PostgreSQL via RDS or Aurora.

- Docker, Terraform, EKS used by the Cloud team to run the platform.

- DataDog and Rollbar for monitoring.

- GitHub with Sonarcloud, Semgrep, and solid testing for CI/CD pipelines.

- Angular 2+ with ngrx on Web, Flutter for the Mobile App.

- Fivetran/Snowflake/Looker for BI insights and Python/Faust/Flask/Tecton + some ML libs for automated decisioning and risk management.

## Benefits

- Flexible working options.

- Group Life Insurance.

- Vitality Health Insurance with a focus on mental and physical wellbeing.

- 25 days holiday with the ability to buy extra days.

- 3 days for L&D or volunteering time off per year.

- £1,000 professional L&D budget per year.

- Access to 'salary sacrifice' benefits such as Cycle to Work scheme and pension contribution.

- Spacious brand-new office near Old Street with an all-day snacks bar.

- Enhanced family-friendly leave.

- Sabbatical leave.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- JOOQ
- API design
- distributed systems
- cloud infrastructure
- service design
- AI infrastructure
- orchestration

### Nice to have
- experience with AI infrastructure or orchestration
- experience in highly regulated industries

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